Looks like you guys were wrong about the ending of last month's issue - the unbitten dead are returning to life, as confirmed with a rather nice nod back to the events of the first few issues. It was an excusable misinterpretation, though - the slightly-hurried pacing at the start of this issue meant that I wasn't sure myself until about halfway through the book, and there's still considerable room for doubt about the issue, all things considered.

Another fantastic shock ending (although again, the pacing felt a little uneven - that's very much a first impression on a fast readthrough, though, so take it with a pinch of salt), and a few more deaths this month - Kirkman really seems to be trimming down the supporting cast of the book considerably, which isn't a bad thing. I like the large cast of characters, but it was getting a little unwieldy, and the occasional cull helps to keep things unpredictable. It looks like all is far from well in the prison, and I'm looking forward to where it's going - it's not clear if the prisoners are hiding some truly nasty secret (although I'm pretty sure they are - their explanation of what happened to the guards and the other prisoners was far too convenient, and that "toilet" screams "Pile of bodies! Pile of bodies!" to me), or if treachery has struck from within the established group. Or, of course, both/neither of the above.

Excellent stuff, overall. I just hope they can stick to the monthly schedule for a while...

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

I may remove the spoiler code in a few days, when everyone's had a chance to read the issue. But since most UK-based types won't get the chance to read it until this evening at the very earliest, it seemed like the thing to do.

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

I may remove the spoiler code in a few days, when everyone's had a chance to read the issue. But since most UK-based types won't get the chance to read it until this evening at the very earliest, it seemed like the thing to do.

Any idea who killed the girls? The obvious answer would be one of the prisoners, maybe the suspicious "tax evasion" guy, but I'm not sure that isn't misdirection. Maybe someone from within the established group? That'd be gratifyingly fucked-up...

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

Any idea who killed the girls? The obvious answer would be one of the prisoners, maybe the suspicious "tax evasion" guy, but I'm not sure that isn't misdirection. Maybe someone from within the established group? That'd be gratifyingly fucked-up...

P.S Think we should discuss these spoiler theories more once people like yourself, Wolvy and John McMahon read issue #15...i have my own ideas who is behind what you've mentioned above but in the meantime, i shall keep it to myself until another time.

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

Did it explain how Tyreeses Daughter became Zombified? I havent read the issue yet, wont be able to pick up my stuff till the end of this month.

I saw a preview page for 17 or something. It said "Rick Snaps" and showed him beating the shit out of some one on the cover.

No but Rick starts theorising as a result of Tyreese's daughter returning from the dead but i am spoiling nothing here until everyone here who is interested in The Walking Dead has read the issue, however i think the next couple of issues will shed some more light around this burning issue.

All i will say is this...a major lead character looks like he's bowed out but i think the jury is still out on that one until issue 16 hits the racks...

My bad, the issue i meant was actually issue 19, as pictured on this page of Allthingszombie.com....

Funny to see Deadworld making a comeback too huh?, haven't read those in years.

I recently picked up the FantaCO issues of Night Of The Living Dead recently, they've aged a fair bit since way back, i remember the Night Of The Living Dead: London covers with Clive Barker's name on them when i used to buy my Grendel and Nightbreed comics way back in the mid-90s and wondering what Clive Barker cooked up there....

And then i found out a month ago after buying them on Ebay... an absolutely bloody terrible storyline, Clive Barker usually comes up with better stuff than that and its safe to say its one of the worst things he has ever written.

Its more in tune with what George Romero did with his zombie films, he breathes a bit of real life into his characters as they all hang on to the hope that this whole cataclysmic event thats turned their lives upside down will blow over soon and in the meantime, the best thing to try and do is to hang on to the remnants of their past lives in order to stop themselves from going insane. In any sense, thats likely to be anybody's reaction if such a thing happened.

And they seem to be a damn sight more real than the mindless screeching cadaver-in-waiting people with which Italian horror directors of the 70s the likes of Lucio Fulci, Bruno Mattei and Umberto Lenzi and other directors of that giallo period made their survivors out to be in their zombie movies.

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

I said it in the Comics I Read ... thread, but man, they REALLY upped the body count with this ish. At first I was wondering if the kids were killed as a result of some zombie escape due to Tyreese's suicide run, but then I realized it was Senor Tax Evasion. Well, probably---we haven't got a full confirm on that one, but I'm assuming so for now.

Still wondering what's in the fridge, 'cuz you know it ain't squeezy pops.

Share on other sites

You notice that he first ran into his old neighbor,helped them out for awhile,then took a horse,and got lost in town full of zombies,then he ran into that one kid, and the kid took him to the RV camp, and thats where his wife an kid where. It made perfect sense.

Holy shit was the ending of #15 gut wrenching. My god. At first I thought it might have been Tyreese because he seemd to have "snapped" He was acting waay to calm an content for a guy who's daughter was murdered an then zombie-fied, not to mention someone who had to burn his daughters body. He was just too upbeat. But then again, He was being attacked by Zombies when the girls got murdered so it wasnt him. I suspect it could be the older sister,Though she didnt seem like one to snap,or brutally kill someone. So who knows.